Curtains
<b>Find a gem in Owino Market</b><br><br>WHEN it comes to interior décor, a number of people flock to interior design homes for answers. This goes down well if you have the money. But what if you don’t have a lot of money and yet you need household accessories such as curtains?
Find a gem in Owino Market
By Rehema Aanyu
WHEN it comes to interior décor, a number of people flock to interior design homes for answers. This goes down well if you have the money. But what if you don’t have a lot of money and yet you need household accessories such as curtains?
Good old Owino (St Balikuddembe) Market is the place. To many, it is a one stop shopping centre. From the usual things like foodstuff, clothes to household equipment, one can also purchase household accessories such as curtains at pocket friendly prices which sets it apart from the major interior design homes dotted in town.
With less than sh15,000, depending on one’s bargaining power, one can purchase beautiful curtains for his or her home from Owino Market. The same, however, costs sh45,000 (non-negotiable) in established upholstery shops in Kampala.
The most available curtain materials in Owino Market are cotton, polyester and silk. A metre of cotton curtain fabric in Owino Market goes for sh9,500, polyester for sh6,500 and silk for sh8,500. The same fabrics cost between sh25,000 and sh30,000 per metre. Linen and velvet fabrics cost sh35,000 per metre in other shops.
Joshua Kaiso, a curtain designer in Owino Market, says that for dressing an average window, one needs four and a half metres of curtain fabric while for the doors, between five and eight metres are used depending on the size of the door or window.
“In cases where the client is ignorant of his/her door or window size, measurements are done free of charge. The material is then cut, designed and sown for not less than sh5,000. This, however, is free in most interior design homes,†he says.
In Owino, to have or not have curtain accessories is entirely dependant on the clients’ needs. Flaps, sways and tails go for sh5,000 and sh7,000 depending on the design and fabric.
Janet Mukiiya, a curtain designer and tailor in Owino Market, says though most clients fail to see the decorative value of curtain accessories, she makes it a point to tell them so.
For a cost of between sh15,000 and sh25,000 one can have the curtains fixed in one’s home. “For such services, the client pays transport costs for the person who hangs the curtains,†Mukiiya says.
As policy in most interior design homes, this is free of charge.
By Rehema Aanyu
WHEN it comes to interior décor, a number of people flock to interior design homes for answers. This goes down well if you have the money. But what if you don’t have a lot of money and yet you need household accessories such as curtains?
Good old Owino (St Balikuddembe) Market is the place. To many, it is a one stop shopping centre. From the usual things like foodstuff, clothes to household equipment, one can also purchase household accessories such as curtains at pocket friendly prices which sets it apart from the major interior design homes dotted in town.
With less than sh15,000, depending on one’s bargaining power, one can purchase beautiful curtains for his or her home from Owino Market. The same, however, costs sh45,000 (non-negotiable) in established upholstery shops in Kampala.
The most available curtain materials in Owino Market are cotton, polyester and silk. A metre of cotton curtain fabric in Owino Market goes for sh9,500, polyester for sh6,500 and silk for sh8,500. The same fabrics cost between sh25,000 and sh30,000 per metre. Linen and velvet fabrics cost sh35,000 per metre in other shops.
Joshua Kaiso, a curtain designer in Owino Market, says that for dressing an average window, one needs four and a half metres of curtain fabric while for the doors, between five and eight metres are used depending on the size of the door or window.
“In cases where the client is ignorant of his/her door or window size, measurements are done free of charge. The material is then cut, designed and sown for not less than sh5,000. This, however, is free in most interior design homes,†he says.
In Owino, to have or not have curtain accessories is entirely dependant on the clients’ needs. Flaps, sways and tails go for sh5,000 and sh7,000 depending on the design and fabric.
Janet Mukiiya, a curtain designer and tailor in Owino Market, says though most clients fail to see the decorative value of curtain accessories, she makes it a point to tell them so.
For a cost of between sh15,000 and sh25,000 one can have the curtains fixed in one’s home. “For such services, the client pays transport costs for the person who hangs the curtains,†Mukiiya says.
As policy in most interior design homes, this is free of charge.